Beauty

Chiu's Beauty skewers the beauty-industrial complex, chronicling the life and misadventures of Amy Wong: designer, wife, mother, and ambivalent bucker of family traditions. Chiu's prose is as sharp as a fresh-pressed lapel; anyone looking for a sometimes-shocking glimpse into another world will welc......more

Brutal and so real, it was a shocking and wonderful read.......more

I loved both the story and the storytelling. The author has a way of breathing life into her characters, and I loved my visit with them. She described the power of both survival and the ability to thrive in a way that had me rooting for her main character the whole way through. What an enjoyable rea......more

BEAUTY by Christina Chiu is the story of being young, Chinese-American, fashion conscious, and body conscious in New York City. It's sharp-edged at times, especially the main character, Amy Wong. Her life is one of difficult relationships, with her mother, her sister, the myriad of men in her life--......more

One sentence in, I know SO MANY readers I HAVE to share Christina Chiu’s fascinating Beauty with! What does that mean about a story? That it’s interesting, unique, relatable, and only gets better when we talk about it? YES! Amy Wong struggles between norms and one-of-a-kind pieces, years after her f......more